Name and describe the mechanism that Harold F. Reid proposed to explain the shaking that occurred

during the San Francisco earthquake of 1906? What will be an ideal response?


The elastic rebound theory. Strain energy builds up within rock masses along a fault line and is
released suddenly just as a rubber band snaps when it stretched and then released. This sends out a
pulse of energy felt as vibrations and shaking

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